Well I got it from a site that said leopard themes. IS THERE ANY WAY TO PARTITION MY HARD DRIVE IN TERMINAL? I HAVE IT RUNNING IN MY DASHBOARD BECAUSE MY DOCK WORKS. I WILL TRY TO INSTALL TIGER, FIX THE INSTALL, AND BOOT LEOPARD BACK UP.

"If you're using Mac OS X 10.2 or later, you can start up your computer in Safe Mode, which includes an automatic disk check and repair."

To start up into Safe Mode (to Safe Boot), do this:

-Be sure your Mac is shut down.
-Press the power button.
-Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
-Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).

Correct me if I'm mistaken (which has been known to happen) but doesn't creating/resizing a partition with Disk Utility off of the install disk also delete the contents of those partitions?

I know it happened to me the last couple of times I did it.

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As I haven't done that yet while booted from the Install DVD, I don't know for sure, but since there is that little plus icon in the Partitions tab, one might assume, that it works without deleting the entire HDD, though Tiger might be different.

Do you have access to another Mac? Can you take yours to a friend or neighbor's who has a Mac? You could connect the two via Firewire and use Target Disk Mode to see if you can repair your OS HD installation or at least see it and be able to move whatever files you want to save before you reinstall the OS.

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